Paraplegic patient doing carpentry work, already in 1945, having adopted accordingly his workbench. The same patient became also an instructor for other patients in the rehabilitation programme.
Source: Guttmann L. New hope for spinal cord sufferers. Medical Times 1945; 318-26, p 345.

L. Guttmann integrated sports such as darts in the rehabilitation programme of the paraplegic patients.
Source: Guttmann L. New hope for spinal cord sufferers. Medical Times 1945; 318-26, p 324.

L. Guttman introduced a special form of polo for patients in a wheel chair. This was the first team game, soon followed by basketball, which became the most popular game between the patients and spectators. These team games soon developed to a sports movement known as The Stoke Mandeville Games.
Source: Guttmann L. New hope for spinal cord sufferers. Medical Times 1945; 318-26, p 324.

In 1952 the Stoke Mandeville Games became international with the participation of a team of Dutch paraplegic war veterans.
Source: Guttmann L. Development of sport for the spinal paralysed. Index to Olympic Review 1977;
110-3. www.aafla.org/olympicInformationCenter/olympicReview 1977, p 112. (enlace no funcional)

The world's first sports stadium for the multi-disabled was inaugurated by Queen Elisabeth on the 2nd August 1969.
Source: Guttmann L. Development of sport for the spinal paralysed II. Olympic Review 1977; 179-82 . www.aafla.org/olympicInformationCenter/olympicReview 1977, p 180. (enlace no funcional).